My Account
Report problem with this ad
Start a related thread
Start a related poll
Reply via Boardmail
Oct 19, 2020
8:04
:46
am
jdub
FORMER USER
Personally, I hate the flashy lights, but your 12-yo might like it.
Start a related thread
Start a related poll
Reply via Boardmail
Report problem with this ad
jdub
Bio page
jdub
Joined
May 13, 2004
Last login
Jun 4, 2024
Total posts
77,231 (17,349 FO)
Report problem with this ad
Messages
Author
Time
I need some help with a PC build - never done this before
Medute
10/19/20 7:08am
BM Jdub
Mathew
10/19/20 7:12am
Building a bootable USB stick is pretty easy.
MarkWatney
10/19/20 7:15am
Make sure everything is compatible, which you probably did on a site like pcpartpicker.
TN_Coug
10/19/20 7:19am
It all looks good to me, choice of components are what I would choose for a nice
Pablo Bot
10/19/20 7:19am
You might also look into a CPU cooler, I am not sure if the 3600X comes with an
Pablo Bot
10/19/20 7:28am
It does come with a cooler. I did use pcpartipicker.com
Medute
10/19/20 7:33am
That seems pretty straight forward and yet sounds like Japanese
Medute
10/19/20 7:34am
There are a ton of monitor options out there at a very wide variety of prices.
Pablo Bot
10/19/20 7:47am
You can do this, it's only intimidating until you've actually done it. Watch some YouTube videos and it will help
jdub
10/19/20 8:10am
Needs more rgb
snowbird
10/19/20 7:24am
Can you provide a suggestion?
Medute
10/19/20 7:32am
If you want more RGB, get an addressable RGB stick that fits in your case
Squeegee
10/19/20 7:50am
you could also swap the stock CPU cooler with an RGB one
Squeegee
10/19/20 7:57am
Personally, I hate the flashy lights, but your 12-yo might like it.
jdub
10/19/20 8:04am
That's me, too, but he asked for it, soooo.
Squeegee
10/19/20 8:21am
I would get dual 27” with minuscule bezels rather than a 34” curved. Some
valleus
10/19/20 7:43am
I'd suggest a full ATX tower. The cable management is amazing. I can't believe I stuck to mid-towers forever.
Bert609
10/19/20 7:48am
Cable management will be less of an issue because he has a fully modular PSU and an m.2 drive that needs no cables
TN_Coug
10/19/20 8:01am
yeah, I'm definitely doing a modular PSU next time. There are so many cables on my 750W power supply, I can't imagine
Bert609
10/19/20 8:05am
Some of the new ultrawide monitors let you treat them as two logical monitors.
Squeegee
10/19/20 8:26am
we use a lot of the small cases at work. They definitely have their place. I'd have to try the large monitor thing, we
Bert609
10/19/20 9:20am
If budget isn't an issue, I'd bump up to a Ryzen 7 3800X or 3800XT.
jdub
10/19/20 8:01am
I mean if budget REALLY isn’t an issue, get the Nvidia 3090.
MarkWatney
10/19/20 8:12am
Well, yeah, but that's a much bigger price jump than Ryzen 5 to Ryzen 7.
jdub
10/19/20 8:14am
Couple of questions on this
Medute
10/19/20 9:11am
I put HDDs in because they add a lot of additional storage at a much cheaper dollars per GB than with your M.2 drives.
jdub
10/19/20 10:35am
Cool, thank you. Everything else I listed will work with Ryzen 7, right?
Medute
10/19/20 10:42am
yep
jdub
10/19/20 10:49am
To answer your question, here are the instructions to install windows:
BYUMizzou
10/19/20 8:10am
I built my own PC
sanitarium
10/19/20 9:08am
Sorry, but don’t do this. Do backup your files online somewhere though.
Pablo Bot
10/19/20 10:03am
How much is 10TB of cloud storage these days? I haven't priced it because my internet speeds are slow enough it would
Bert609
10/19/20 10:42am
I do run an Unraid NAS in my house, but it also does nightly backup to Backblaze
Pablo Bot
10/19/20 4:48pm
Yeah, that'd be $400/month for me. :(. But the NAS idea w/ nightly backups is awesome.
Bert609
10/19/20 5:02pm
10 TB would be $50/mo
Pablo Bot
10/19/20 8:39pm
Report problem with this ad
Posting on CougarBoard
In order to post, you will need to either
sign up
or
log in
.
Report problem with this ad